英国图书价格之高是世界闻名的。我国老作家萧乾1985年重访英伦,发现当时的书价与四十年代相比简直是天上地下。例如,在1939年,一本企鹅版的平装书售价仅六个辨士(按当时币制一英镑合二百四十辨士)。到1985年,同样一本书,售价为二镑五十辨士。到九十年代初笔者在英国时,企鹅版平装书的售价又已经翻了一翻:每册四镑九十九辨士!在这种情况下,对学生以及其他低收入者来说,买书实在是一笔不小的开支。正是针对这种情况,近两年来,一家总部在赫特福持的出版商推出了一套名叫华兹华斯版 The price of British books is world famous. Xiao Qian, an old writer in our country, revisited England in 1985 and found that the book price at that time was simply underground from the 1940s. For example, in 1939, a paperback version of a penguin sold for only six pennsials (at the time, a penny of £ 241 pen). By 1985, the same book, priced at £ 50 for two pounds. By the early 1990s, when the author was in the UK, the price of a penguin paperback book had doubled: four pounds and 99 pence a year! In this case, for students and other low-income people, Buying a book is not a small expenditure. It is against this situation, the past two years, a Hertfordshire-based publisher launched a set called Wordsworth version